From: Silver Ghost
Sorry to bang on about this statistics thing but now it's got down to basics and it's really bugging the hell out of me.
You are all no doubt aware that every seminar / evening / presentation you go to (and in some Aussie books), they all mention that when we all hit the age of 65, x% live off less than $400 per week, y% live off whatever and only 1.3%(?) have over $1,000 pw to live off.
Well.... has anyone got a reference for these stats? - because they all seem to differ slightly every time they are quoted. They all reference either Aus Bureau of Stats 1996 or Census but I CANNOT FIND THEM (aarrgghh).
The nearest I can get is ABS doc 6523.0 but it talks in quintiles and mean incomes but no specifics as above. I even called the ABS but they said that they didn't think they had those particular details.
Can anyone pleeeez help? any statisticians or actuaries or numbers freaks out there? Anybody? Please?
Sorry to bang on about this statistics thing but now it's got down to basics and it's really bugging the hell out of me.
You are all no doubt aware that every seminar / evening / presentation you go to (and in some Aussie books), they all mention that when we all hit the age of 65, x% live off less than $400 per week, y% live off whatever and only 1.3%(?) have over $1,000 pw to live off.
Well.... has anyone got a reference for these stats? - because they all seem to differ slightly every time they are quoted. They all reference either Aus Bureau of Stats 1996 or Census but I CANNOT FIND THEM (aarrgghh).
The nearest I can get is ABS doc 6523.0 but it talks in quintiles and mean incomes but no specifics as above. I even called the ABS but they said that they didn't think they had those particular details.
Can anyone pleeeez help? any statisticians or actuaries or numbers freaks out there? Anybody? Please?
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